US World History Review

New Rome

• A city won from the Gaul's and transformed into a roman center space

• Roman Emperor Constantine's “New Rome,” a Christian city of immense wealth and magnificent architecture

• New city built for the Persians and trade

• Arab trading port

Arab Empire

• Empire created to trade grains

• Empire created by the Japanese

• the empire created by Muslim Arabs in the Middle Ages in the Middle East.

• Empire created by the Indians

Medieval Europe Farming

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Three field system crop rotation

• Organic farming

• Aquaculture

Feudalism

• like kings and queens, maintained control and power by the support of other powerful people called lords.

• a system of political organization (as in Europe during the Middle Ages) in which a vassal served a lord and received protection and land in return.

Charlemagne

• a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe from 768 to 814.

• the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward.

• King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts

• the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign in history whose date is verifiable.

Result of the Crusades

• the expansion of kingdoms like Denmark and Sweden, as well as the creation of brand-new political units, for example in Prussia.

• The Greeks finally win the war by an ingenious piece of deception dreamed up by the hero and king of Ithaca, Odysseus

Ghana in the 1100s

• The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade and diplomatic relations with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military.

• The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa.

• The Ghana Empire crumbled from the 12th century CE following drought, civil wars, the opening up of trade routes elsewhere, and the rise of the Sosso Kingdom

reformation era

• The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.

• Everyone agreed with the Catholic church and conformed

Issac Newton

• A philosophers who invented psychics / calculus

• Conducted electricity through a lightning rod

• man who invented Confucianism and expanded education in China

Enlightenment

• a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.

• a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton.

• a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom